Thank God, they have ruined so many racial societies already by concentrating on these garbage tier cosmic forces over class fantasy & differential characteristics of racial societies’ cultures.
Militarily weak doesn’t translate to spiritually weak, especially since all troll civilisations had learned their magics from Zandalari, including dark voodoo magics.
It was a terrible decision and they have realised it too, that’s why it’s not explained.
And for the same reason they are not going to explain the Wild Gods connection Light either.
All races being just mere cosmetics & all cosmic forces being just a different aesthetics of arcane spells would be such a terrible idea. But we’re heading there with this Chronicle’s garbage tier cosmic forces and bowing to players demands to have Zandalari paladins when they go against Blizz’s own lore.
What should be do instead is to prune class combos and give free character boosts as a compensation for every removed combo that a customer has.
Harsh, but a necessary initial step towards fixing this already retconned lore garbage of Chronicle.
I mean they are physically smaller than other trolls, and they do seem to place -less- focus on the Loa than the other tribes, including the Zandalari, so that…makes sense…
Tauren Sunwalkers make perfect sense, in the same way that Zandalari Prelates do. Let me rephrase that. They make perfect sense if you can understand the concept of what a Paladin is, without expecting it to be a plate mail wearing Christian Knight.
A Paladin is just a Holy Warrior. That’s what they are. That’s what Charlemagne’s original 12 Paladins, and Rolands Paladins were, Holy Warriors.
Every culture has those. Every Culture. Native American ‘Warrior Societies’, Aztec devotees of the Jaguar, Eagle or Kukulkan, the Irish Fianna, the Knights of Kaiser Barbarossa, the Aborigine’s, the Masai, the Zulu’s, the Norse.
The very idea of what a Paladin actually is, is found in every culture where you have a concept of a)something supernatural telling you what to do, and b) people carrying a hitty stick. It is our western conceit that confines us to the idea of knights in plate mail. The Concept of Holy Warrior’s is older than the word Paladin itself, so, y’know… Sunwalkers and Prelates actually have more of a historical background than Silver Hand Paladin type Paladins…
That’s a very good question since they were part of human Alliance in Second War and had actively participated into Holy Light’s culture.
Instead we had to make them garbage tier, neo-pagan sea worshippers so we could fulfil fan demand of human shamans.
Kul’Tiran Shamans… Which brings attention to one of Blizzards biggest shortcomings… Namely consistency.
If Kul’Trians can get shaman because of tidesages due to their overlapp with resto shamans Then why can’t Zandalari get warlock due to the plethora of various hexers, curses and their ability to mess with souls which again have a strong overlap with affliction warlocks.
Then there are the characters we meet out in the world which contradict norms and rules set on the players. Like Anduin the plate wearing preast. Delas Moonfang the Night Elf Paladin. High Botanist Tel’arn the Nightborne druid…
Ironically if we’re going with the thread title, and how Voodoo works, Demon HUnters -would- be what a Zandalari Warlock was. Voodoo priests and their congregations saw themselves as ‘Horses’ for the Loa to possess and be ‘ridden’, so thewhole stuff with Rastakhan and Talanji, that is totally Voodoo. A Houngan would not summon a demon as a separate entity, they would summon it to possess themselves!
Literally zero connection between their size and their devotion to Loa. Darkspear are quite superstitious lorewise.
They make literally zero sense as Paladin class was modelled as a carbon copy of crusader knights.
If every culture can have holiness in it, there are multiple versions of Light, not just one cosmic power that is Light like garbage tier Chronicle would state. Every druid of night elven societies would be equivalent to paladin (since they are devoted warriors of a supernatural power) and should be hence capable to have connection to Light.
Light being a manifestation of dedication of faith makes literally zero sense when you factor other class into that logic.
Its called devolution, and what have they -always- said? “Stay away from the voodoo” I mean to be honest, I would probably caution people against a religious practice that apparently said it was OK for me to end up as hors d’ouevres at a Gurubashi banquet, but hey ho. Darkspear are -superstitious-, they are not religious…
Which is garbage writing. It is essentially taking from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and trying to make it sound new. Paladins, as in the first time people were ever called Paladins had absolutely zero to do with crusader knights. They were cavalry. That’s it. They never went on Crusades, in fact were distinctly unpopular with the Pope at the time, and had no religious basis in their actions at all.
Our word Paladin? As it applies in WoW? It actually better fits the Warrior Class.
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Light has never made a distinction that way, and even people who are irreconcilably evil to all sensible mentalities and moralities, have the ability to use that power. Just the same as Paladins in Europe have always been capable of being murderous thugs with a pedigree and church dispensation…
The -Class- of Paladin is not the definition of the word Paladin. Its just a name Blizzard gave to the class…
Superstition is excessively credulous belief in and reverence for the supernatural.
Literally no difference between the two, and hence no difference between Zandalari & Darkspear devotion to superstitious things.
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Lad, paladins irl represent the valour of Christian chivalry against the Saracen invasion of Europe. Saracens is medieval term for conquering Arab Muslims.
Paladin fantasy is completely tied into Christian knights.
And reasoning for that being just manifestation of devotion is a garbage tier reasoning, since it implies that any other cosmic force aren’t acquire through dedication to them.
Then they should have used a different name, since the word itself has a clear defining root of it.
term ‘paladin’ literally means a French Christian knight of Charlamagne’s court that were fighting against Muslim conquerors.
The term is completely tied into Christian crusader fantasy.
Paladin is a literary term that wasn’t used until hundreds of years after charlemagne and his court were dead. It’s like I can refer to WW1 soldiers as Paladins, doesn’t mean they were called Paladins.
Why not? It would be a term to add literary flair in a fictional work based on historical events. Exactly the same way as it is used for Charlamagne’s knights.
